Question 14069 — energy and fuels

Summary

Mr. Guillaume Florquin draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty to the lessons to be learned from the major electrical outage that affected the entire Iberian Peninsula, following which new elements have recently been made public. A year after this event, internal exchanges between operators of the Spanish electricity network were revealed during parliamentary work in the Spanish Senate. These elements highlight situations of high network instability, linked in particular to oscillations that are difficult to control in a system marked by an increasing share of intermittent renewable energies. This episode had serious consequences, with widespread paralysis of activities and several victims. These revelations come in a context where several States Europeans are continuing a rapid transformation of their energy mix, based on a rise in intermittent energy. They raise legitimate questions about the capacity of electricity networks to absorb such developments without compromising their stability, particularly in the absence of sufficient controllable means of production. In France, the third multiannual energy program (PPE 3) provides for a significant acceleration in the development of intermittent renewable energies, with considerable investments in network connection and adaptation infrastructure. These guidelines raise questions about the potential risks for the security of electricity supply, even though the French system is historically based on a controllable and highly carbon-free fleet. In this context, he asks her what analyzes the Government draws from the Iberian electricity blackout, whether studies have been carried out to assess the systemic risks linked to a high penetration of intermittent energies in the French network and what concrete guarantees can be provided to the French regarding the stability and security of the national electricity system.

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